Re: [open-cobol-list] Linux Mint Borked?

[Brian Tiffin]

Sounds like better news Patrick.

Offtopic a little.  You may want to check out Fossil SCM, by Dr. Richard Hipp.  He's the creator of SQLite and huge fan of Ousterhout's Tcl/Tk.  Both SQLite and Tcl are hosted in Fossil repositories.  Anyway, Fossil is extensible through TH1 a mini Tcl ala Jim.

Rildo Pragana, creator of TinyCOBOL is pretty active in the Tcl arena as well.

I'm leaning toward Guile as a scripting engine for OpenCOBOL (due to GNU and other forces), but Lua embedded so nicely, is so easy to weild, etcetera, it would be the number two choice for sure.  And if I ever pull my head out and implement the --with-guille configure option, perhaps --with-lua will go in too.

Cheers,

Brian

On Wed, Jul 3, 2013 at 11:05 PM, Patrick <address@hidden> wrote:

Thanks Brian and thanks again Mike

I am still trying to piece together what went wrong  but it looks like
things started to go bad on Mint Linux when I tried to embed Jim Tcl(a
tiny Tcl implementation) and used this command cobc -x jim.cob -ljim .

It failed and then I tried Brain's cobpy.cob program and it failed too,
only it was my mistake as I used a -lpython flag instead of a
-lpython2.7 flag.

I made other mistakes as well.

Now that I am on Debian, cobc -x jim.cob -ljim works just fine. I think
it's jim on Mint that may be borked and what caused me to go off on a
tangent.

Thanks again for all your support.

I am really happy tonight, I have jim working well with Cobol. I want to
tidy up some examples and then share.

Jim Tcl is used in a similar way to Lua but Lua has much more market share.

I think jim may be better suited for working with Cobol then Lua. Lua
numbs the pain of working in C but with Cobol we just don't have the
same kind of pain and I don't personally need Lua right now.

The main weak points I have seen and heard about with Lua are the module
system, suitability for shell scripting and regular expressions.

Jim is not nearly as powerful or fast as Lua but with jim these 3 topics
appear strong and are what I think will add benefit to Cobol. There is a
great deal of overlap between the strengths of Cobol and Lua.

I will be back with my results soon, I hope I will have something that
will be of help to someone else on the list.

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